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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Typesense

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasetypesense.org
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release2012201420102015
Current release1.20.3, January 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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